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  • April 27, 2025 at 10:01 am #156195
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    Sam Monson@SamMonsonNFL
    I’ve said this for a few years now, but NFL teams are collectively getting smarter.

    You’re not getting the absolute trainwreck free agency periods or drafts that you used to get.

    It’s a struggle to find drafts i really hate.

    There used to be half a dozen every year.

    April 27, 2025 at 10:24 am #156196
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    April 27, 2025 at 11:38 am #156205
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    April 27, 2025 at 8:32 pm #156214
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    I appreciate you guys bringing this material in here, but I feel like there hasn’t been enough attention given to Shadeur Sanders. I was actually thinking we should have a Shadeur Sanders Forum here, but if not that, at least a thread anchored to the top of this forum.

    I miss the blue board.

    April 27, 2025 at 9:30 pm #156220
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    Zooey wrote:

    I miss the blue board.

    Not me! I think the Vikings flamers are still there.

    April 28, 2025 at 1:40 am #156223
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    Zooey wrote:

    I feel like there hasn’t been enough attention given to Shadeur Sanders.

    oh, alright…

    May 1, 2025 at 10:06 pm #156301
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    May 14, 2025 at 9:54 pm #156432
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    First photo of Christian Bale as Al Davis, and Nick Cage as John Madden in the upcoming film “Madden

    May 14, 2025 at 11:47 pm #156433
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    I have no interest in that story, but Christian Bale and Nicholas Cage might just make that worth watching. I would never have imagined Cage in that role, and that alone makes me curious because he’s going to have to break into some new territory here. And Bale makes things… interesting.

    May 15, 2025 at 12:11 am #156434
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    Zooey wrote:

    I have no interest in that story, but Christian Bale and Nicholas Cage might just make that worth watching. I would never have imagined Cage in that role, and that alone makes me curious because he’s going to have to break into some new territory here. And Bale makes things… interesting.

    Actually, for me, the Madden Raiders are my 2nd favorite team. Not the Raiders, the Madden Raiders. With the Rams it’s just the Rams even through the dark years. With the Madden Raiders it was a flirtatious interest.

    The Madden Raiders helped underpin my admiration for clutch qbs above all others (of which Stafford is one). I remember one of the best games I ever saw live on tv while it was happening was the great 1977 Colts/Raiders game, known forever afterwards as The Ghost to the Post.

    May 15, 2025 at 1:23 am #156435
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    zn wrote:

    Actually, for me, the Madden Raiders are my 2nd favorite team. Not the Raiders, the Madden Raiders. With the Rams it’s just the Rams even through the dark years. With the Madden Raiders it was a flirtatious interest.

    Yeah?

    Well, I always hated your stupid BFF girlfriend Madden Raiders. I still hate the Raiders to this day because of what is the only interesting chapter in their sordid history, sleeping around with one city after another, and trying to come off as Mavericky as Sarah Palin.

    I grew up in NoCal, so I was surrounded by those insufferable idiots who gave birth to the Mad Max Halloween beat-up-fans-of-visiting-team sociopaths who thought they were on the team roster, listed right after The Assassin Jack Tatum who was fucking proud of paralyzing a guy for life.

    I didn’t hate every player, I will admit that, and I didn’t hate Madden. They even had several players I admired, but I hated the “assassin” ethos, and the fans that embraced that. And Al Davis was the scumbag among scumbags.

    Anyway. Carry on.

    Just play the game.

    May 15, 2025 at 2:49 am #156436
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    Zooey wrote:

    I didn’t hate every player, I will admit that, and I didn’t hate Madden. They even had several players I admired, but I hated the “assassin” ethos, and the fans that embraced that. And Al Davis was the scumbag among scumbags.

    I agree with all that. And with hating Tatum.

    To me they were Madden, Stabler, Caspar, Belitnikoff, and that OL.

    The team I purely hated back then was the Staubach-then-Danny White Cowboys.

    May 15, 2025 at 3:16 am #156437
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    May 15, 2025 at 8:07 am #156438
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    zn wrote:

    First photo of Christian Bale as Al Davis, and Nick Cage as John Madden in the upcoming film “Madden

    i’ll say this. they look like al and john. probably a lot of makeup involved, but wow.

    if their performances can match the look i gotta watch it.

    May 15, 2025 at 8:02 pm #156445
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    May 15, 2025 at 8:49 pm #156447
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    May 15, 2025 at 9:06 pm #156449
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    Yeah. In looking at the graphic that shows national games, I had to wonder why the Cowboys come in second with 6 national games. They aren’t any good.

    There are several teams that have matchups more interesting than any Cowboys/x matchup. It feels a little like high school.

    To watch a meaningful Cowboys game, you need a VCR.

    May 15, 2025 at 9:33 pm #156450
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    Zooey wrote:

    There are several teams that have matchups more interesting than any Cowboys/x matchup. It feels a little like high school.

    They seem to be sticking with established, status quo money makers.

    from https://frontofficesports.com/most-watched-nfl-teams/

    Despite a poor season, Dallas still outdrew teams with winning records. As the NFL’s most valuable franchise, Dallas uses their well-known brand to attract fans nationwide.

    I don’t defend it. But it looks like the NFL is in “recession’s comin” style thinking. It’ as if they’re openly saying “Schedule the established money makers that draw national audiences, this is not the time to re-think this”

    May 15, 2025 at 11:14 pm #156452
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    zn wrote:

    I don’t defend it. But it looks like the NFL is in “recession’s comin” style thinking. It’ as if they’re openly saying “Schedule the established money makers that draw national audiences, this is not the time to re-think this”

    Yeah, I get it. I guess what’s interesting is that America in general has not caught onto the fact that the Cowboys and the Falcons are roughly the same team over the last 30 years.

    In fact…the Falcons have been better.

    May 16, 2025 at 2:53 pm #156458
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    May 16, 2025 at 9:43 pm #156463
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    Brock Purdy is making about $10 million a year more than Matthew Stafford. Over 20% more than Stafford.

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    May 17, 2025 at 5:27 am #156464
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    Zooey wrote:

    Brock Purdy is making about $10 million a year more than Matthew Stafford. Over 20% more than Stafford.

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    #49ers QB Brock Purdy’s 5-year, $265 million extension is the largest raise in NFL history and makes him highest paid Niner of all time at an average annual salary of $53 million.

    Niners and Purdy always hoped to have this done before on field portion of OTAs. Mission accomplished.

    …

    ME: on Purdy’s contract. That’s just the “starting qb 2nd contract” game. The market determines that, it’s not based on “worth.” The market goes up every year. If you have a starting qb up for a 2nd contract, you either pay him what the market is paying for starting qbs up for 2nd contracts that year, or you let him walk.

    Tua Tagovailoa and Trevor Lawrence signed 2nd contracts in 2024, and their deals were in the 55 M a year range, so if anything Purdy’s deal is a bit at the low end of that market.

    Stafford, in contrast, turned down deals for more money to stay with the Rams. Plus he’s not in the “2nd contract for a starting qb” market. Deals past contract 2 are not as uniformly defined.

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    May 17, 2025 at 12:34 pm #156468
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    zn wrote:

    ME: on Purdy’s contract. That’s just the “starting qb 2nd contract” game. The market determines that, it’s not based on “worth.” The market goes up every year. If you have a starting qb up for a 2nd contract, you either pay him what the market is paying for starting qbs up for 2nd contracts that year, or you let him walk.

    Tua Tagovailoa and Trevor Lawrence signed 2nd contracts in 2024, and their deals were in the 55 M a year range, so if anything Purdy’s deal is a bit at the low end of that market.

    Stafford, in contrast, turned down deals for more money to stay with the Rams. Plus he’s not in the “2nd contract for a starting qb” market. Deals past contract 2 are not as uniformly defined.

    Yeah, I agree with all that. It’s kinda great, though, because using the QB salary as a starting point, the Rams have a better QB and more cap space available outside the QB for other players.

    May 17, 2025 at 1:02 pm #156469
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    Zooey wrote:

    Yeah, I agree with all that. It’s kinda great, though, because using the QB salary as a starting point, the Rams have a better QB and more cap space available outside the QB for other players.

    +1

    May 17, 2025 at 1:18 pm #156471
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